It's like the blind leading the blind...or the humble leading the blind...or the blind leading the humble.

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious -- but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.

Feb 27, 2005

COLOR PIX FROM WWI

A LINK IS FLOATING AROUND to some color pictures taken during the First World War. It feels very strange to look at them.

I had the same thoughts as the VodkaPundit regarding the color-ness of the photos, namely the realization that WWI was not very long ago and its wounds are not completely healed.

Yet since that time, Europe has added child-labor laws, space flight, a failed Nazi invasion, horribly failing communism experiments, countless human rights laws and an arguably viable shot at a united economic system. It seems kind of like trying to re-varnish a table top without sanding and cleaning the original surface. It's just not going to hold up. And consequently, we still have the problem of European Islamists trying to conquer Europe.